You're likely familiar with arabica and robusta. But have you ever tried Liberica? Jeremy LeClair's pandemic pivot might be coming at just the right time for the specialty coffee crowd.
It s not your typical cup of coffee. Neither is the cost. He is selling the racemosa coffee for $60 for 32 grams.
LeClair said that s enough to make five servings. He compared it to buying a bottle of champagne also five servings at around the same cost.
He said that if there can be a market for this coffee, it would save a small area of rainforest from being destroyed. You create a demand and you help save a rare species, and the habitat it s grown in.
A cup of liberica espresso.(Submitted by Jeremy LeClair)
The other coffee LeClair is bringing in is liberica. He said it s grown in Mayalsia and was planted there around 1900, when a fungal disease known as coffee rust was ravaging crops.
The rarest coffee in the world is now available in Toronto
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Toronto is already home to some pretty darn good coffee, but you can now access some of the rarest beans in the world here.
LeClair Organics is bringing the Racemosa bean, the rarest in the world growing only in a specific 150 square kilometre area, as well as the Liberica bean to Toronto for what they believe is the first time. As far as I can tell in searching there are no other coffee brands based in Canada selling & focusing on Liberica coffee. We are the only company focusing on Liberica coffee, LeClair Organics founder Jeremy LeClair told blogTO.